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July 14, 2008

Pols on Newtown: Superfund Us!


Yesterday Reps Anthony Weiner, Nydia Velázquez and residents held a press conference calling for the Environmental Protection Agency to be declare the Newtown Creek a Superfund site. New York Shitty was on the scene and took the video above. "We are standing amidst the largest environmental disaster in American history," said Weiner, "We are standing above a subterranean oil and chemical spill that covers dozens of acres, up to 55 acres, in this area." As the Times notes, between 17 to 30 million gallons of petroleum are estimated to have been spilled in the creek and its surrounding area over the course of more than a century, and a recent study found that vapors from the spill could affect nearby homes and businesses. According to the Daily News, Superfund designation would start a cleanup process that would take more than a decade and result in up to $15 million in federal cleanup funds.
Press Conference At Newtown Creek [NY Shitty]
Lawmakers Ask E.P.A. to Help with Creek Cleanup [NY Times]
Lawmakers Want Feds to Declare Newtown Creek a Superfund Site [Daily News]
Video by NY Shitty.

Posted by Gabby at 9:00 AM | Comments (7)
Categories: Environmental, Greenpoint, Queens

June 9, 2005

Long Island City: Building Bonanza on Horizon

pepsi sign
Regular readers may have noticed that our attention occasionally drifts to our neighbor to the North. We think this is justified by the fact that, of all the boroughs, Queens is probably the most comparable and viable alternative for most Brooklynites, both in terms of affordability and ambience. So we were interested to read in one of the many Metros that littered our subway station this morning that 25 new buildings are slated to rise in Long Island City over the next 5 years. Seems like a lot for the neighborhood whose ascent has been predicted for the last 25 years but has never quite materialized. Maybe it's time has come.
Long Island City: Ready to Boom [Metro, page 19]
Queens: The New Brooklyn [The Real Deal]

Posted by Brownstoner at 9:43 AM | Comments (2)
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